Sassanid Civil War

The Sassanid Civil War was a civil war fomented in the Sassanid Empire (present-day Iran) by the Eastern Roman Empire, who supported rival nobles against Emperor Shapur II of Persia.

War
At war with Rome since 358 AD, the Sassanid Empire was strong, owning most of the Middle East. The Roman emperor Theodosius I assisted rebellious nobles Buran and Kuru in their uprising, bribing them and sending an army under Equitius Flavius to help them. In 368 AD they captured Hatra from the Sasanids, and Buran was left as governor as Kuru and Equitius Flavius advanced on the capital of Ctesiphon. They were joined in the cause by Kolchis, which launched a loyalist revolt in favor of the Eastern Empire, and they joined them. Also joining them was nobleman Narses, who was bribed into joining Rome by a diplomat. Narses' army was swiftly crushed, as it was near Ctesiphon already while the others were near Hatra.